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The leaders of France, Germany, the United Kingdom and Poland had established a deadline on Monday so that Russia would accept an initial fire cessation proposal by the Trump administration and face additional sanctions.
When President Vladimir V. Putin or Russia made an opposite sacrifice or direct conversations, not to mention fire, France and Germany rejected the proposal. Trump’s envoy to Ukraine in conversations, General Keith Kellogg, also on early Sunday said Russia should stop hostilities as a first step in negotiations.
But Trump wrote in a publication about Truth Social that “President Putin or Russia does not want to have a fire cessation agreement with Ukraine.” The Russian leader wrote, wanted the direct conversations to be housed by Türkiye. “Ukraine should agree with this, immediately,” Trump wrote.
Early in the day, Mr. Zensky cautiously responded to the sacrifice of a Russian counter or direct conversations, insisting again on stopping in the fight. After Trump’s post, Mr. Zensky added a new turn to the diplomatic brinkmanship, saying that he would personally attend negotiations. Mr. Putin, in suggestion, immediately speaks, had not proposed a presidential meeting.
Mr. Zelensky’s statement in an X publication did not clarify whether Russia’s participation first accepted the fire, but called Russia again to halticities to allow diplomacy.
“I will be waiting for Putin in Türkiye on Thursday,” he wrote. “Personally. I hope this time the Russians do not look for apologies.”
The burst of exchanges occurred hours after Mr. Putin effectively rejected the deadline of ceasefire on Monday and, on the other hand, proposes that direct conversations between representatives of the two countries are held on Thursday in Istanbul.
Before establishing the deadline on Monday and threatening additional sanctions, European leaders had I talked to Mr. Trump by phone from kyiv on Saturday. They said that the United States would also impose sanctions to Russia if Putin did not agree with a truce.
When supporting the Russian contradictory or conversations in Istanbul, Trump wrote: “At least they can determine whether or not an agreement is possible, and if not, European leaders and the US. UU. They will know where everything is located and can procedures.”
Since the efforts began to end war in Ukraine three months ago, the Trump administration has aligned with Russia in a vote on the United Nations about the war and resumed the largest diplomatic ties with Moscow. It has left in place the existing economic sanctions, but the pressure with additional restrictions has not increased, even when Mr. Putin has shown few signs of retreating in the war.
The civil casualties have begun since the Trump administration ceasefire conversations began, compared to the same period a year ago, cordination to the United Nations. Ukraine agreed in March an American proposal for a high unconditional fire.
In addition to Mr. Putin’s call for direct conversations, Kremlin spokesman said on Saturday that Russia would accept a truce only if Western governments stopped supplying weapons to Ukraine.
President Emmanuel Macron de France described the response of insufficient Russia, saying that while leaving Ukraine that was “a first step but not enough.” Mr. Macron said Mr. Putin was stored with his counterfarter or direct talks and “chickens to buy time.”
In a statement on Sunday, German Chancellor Friedrich Merz, supported Mr. Zensky’s demand for Russia to accept a fire before the direct conversations can begin.
“If the Russian side now indicates a willingness to speak, it is initially a good sign,” said Merz. “But it is far from enough. We hope that Moscow now accepts the fire that can make real conversations possible. Weapons must first fall silent before the conversations can.”
The European leaders who visited kyiv on Saturday were clear that only accepting a high unconditional fire would save Moscow lovely sanctions aimed at exports and oil banking.
President Rece Tayyip Erdogan or Türkiye spoke with Mr. Putin and told him that he was willing to organize discussions between Russia and Ukraine, according to a declaration of the Turkish presidency. Mr. Erdogan said that a high integral fire could lead to a lasting agreement to end the war.
The Kremlin declared a three -day unilateral truce last week around the celebration of the country of the victory anniversary over Nazi Germany. The Ukraine Army confirmed that most of the long -range attacks had stopped during that period, but the fight along the front continued without pause.
Russia resumed her long -range drone attacks against Ukraine overnight. From midnight to the mid morning of Sunday, the Russian forces launched 108 Shahed drones designed by Iran, said the Ukraine Air Force, which establishes aerial alarms in several cities.
Erica L. GreenAnastasia Kuznietsova and Clay Risen contributed reports.
